Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Assembly by Natasha Brown

40 reviews

my_plant_library's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Colonisation, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

vif's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A really clear and powerful look into what it means to be a black woman in the corporate world. It looks at how class, race and gender plays a role. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment, Racism, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Classism, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

readingkitty's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Racism

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexism

mysterymom40's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, and Racism

annarose_'s review against another edition

reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

exploring life as a black british woman in london and the racism and workplace sexual harassment she experiences, this slice of life novella places us in our unnamed narrator's thoughts. navigating identity and existentialism, working in the City, life with her white boyfriend, his old money family, their expectations and her cancer diagnosis, this book packs a lot into 100 pages, but it does so effortlessly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Racism, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts

ymorii's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

charlottejones952's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Racism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual harassment

misty_muskrat's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, and Terminal illness

teresareads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Cancer, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

balkeyeston's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

In less than 100 pages, Natasha Brown has given us a finely calculated portrait of Blackness being wielded by white people as both a blessing and a disease. I'll refrain from spoilers here, but the extended metaphor of disease in particular is just *chef's kiss*. While Assembly is yet another book on the brutality of post-Brexit/post-Trumpian racism and nationalist denial, it lays bare the wounds of racialized microaggression, inherent class privilege, and nationalist stereotyping.

It's really difficult to go into further detail about this without spoilers--especially because the novella is so short I'd essentially be quoting from the whole book. All I can settle with for now is that Assembly is "The Yellow Wallpaper" of our social undoing.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer

I am absolutely obsessed with how Brown

extends the metaphor of Blackness as a cancer

. This comparison forces us to truly feel the pain inflicted on the narrator both when she endures situations of racism and when she must decide whether to conform to a white society or embrace herself in her entirety--even if it means

dying because of it.